The Truth About Yin Yoga: Myths, Lies & Misconceptions.

The Truth About Yin Yoga: myth, lies and misconceptions.

[0:00] Hello. Today on a Yin Yoga podcast. We have a little bit more of a fun but still useful episode planned. Today we’re gonna talk about the truth about yin yoga, the myths, lies, and the misconceptions. We’re gonna jump into that today, so stay tuned for that.

[0:26] Okay. Welcome to a Yen Yoga podcast. If you are new. Welcome, if you are an old familiar, been around for a while, welcome back. Couple of things I wanna jump into before we discuss today’s topic. Um, this is gonna be a solo episode, but today’s topic was actually sparked by a question or an idea from one of you and did you know to your yoga teacher that you can send me questions, thoughts, quandaries conundrums about yin.

[1:00] Uh, and left. I’ve already covered them on the podcast and they’re, if they’re in specific, we’re gonna cover it. So, um, today we’re gonna talk about the truth about yin yoga, myth, lies and misconceptions. We’re gonna go into some of that, but before we do, I wanted to share a little bit of podcast feedback that I’ve gotten.

[1:25] And I actually know who this was, now that I’m looking at the handle. , I’m currently taking teacher training and I can’t recommend her enough. She has the knowledge and passion for her subject and is a gifted communicator and teacher. The classes are the highlight of my week. For anyone interested in taking a deeper dive into yin studying or practicing with Nick would be an excellent choice.

[1:47] Thank you. Kelly. That’s Kelly. C from NYC. I know who that is.. That’s just a little podcast and teacher training. Love all rolled up into one from Kelly. So today’s topic was one that, , was suggested to me and, , we’ll get into that in just a moment. But I just wanna remind everybody, two things, if you’re interested in learning from me, whether it’s now or coming up in a future teacher training, if you’re already a 200 hour or more.

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[4:00] I cannot guarantee that there will be colorful language in this episode, but I also cannot guarantee that there won’t be because I have the mouth. Of the sailor and the soul of a mermaid. So please, , if you have small people around, take a moment to grab headphones now. Okay, now those of you watching the video, I am gonna be reading a little bit, so you may see my eyes again, sort of darting around a little.

[4:25] My apologies for that. It’s not that I’m not trying to make eye contact with you, it’s just that I need lists to keep me on track. . So I’m gonna be looking at one of those. , A while ago there was, , a request in Facebook, it’s by Sherry Kapo, who was the one who shared the idea. Shout out Sherry, , about yin yoga myths and lies.

[4:54] I just am resisting the urge to jump into an eighties song, but. We’ll maybe save that for later. Um, so what are some of the myths that you hear about yen yoga or maybe things that you used to believe about yen yoga that you now know aren’t true or you may even hear some throughout here that you realize, oh, actually I believed that until this episode.

[5:17] Okay, so let’s go into some of those. So I have, this was a crowdsourced episode. I have the original Facebook post on my. Phone here and we’ll go over some of these. So I’ll share mine that I listed first, that you don’t need yin yoga teacher training to teach Yin. Let’s just break that down briefly.

[5:36] I’ve done a whole episode on this. We won’t talk about it a lot, but, , you wouldn’t teach Kundalini yoga without taking a kundalini training, or at least I hope you wouldn’t, you wouldn’t teach an Tonga class without being an Ashtanga yogi and having Ashtanga training. Et cetera, et cetera. And yet, somehow there’s this myth that yin yoga is just like air quotes, regular yoga, but with longer holds.

[6:01] Nene, I say, this is not the truth. There is so much that you don’t know about teaching Yin until you take a really good training and then you’re like, oh, shit, I didn’t know any of that. So that would be the first myth, and that’s the one that I’m going to dispel.

[6:22] Right outta the gate. That was my first one. See what else we have here.

[6:29] Yes, that yin yoga is just like regular yoga with longer holds.

[6:32] Oh. That it’s only to, here’s a good one, that yin yoga is only to relax and it’s not challenging. And yin yoga is definitely challenging just in a very different way. So yeah, you’re not gonna be sweating and jumping around and doing Changs and all of that, but you are gonna be sitting still and quiet for many minutes at a time with nothing but the sound of your mind.

[6:54] Dun, dun, dun. And that is challenging indeed. Another one. And I’ve done, a whole episode on this. I’ve done whole episodes on a lot of these. This might be a good time to remind you also that if you are looking for past episodes in the show notes here, there’s a thing that says, see all episodes at a glance.

[7:15] It’s a link. If you click it, it takes you to a Google Doc where it lists the episodes that I’ve done so far. So you can surf through those and find ones that tickle your fancy. Or if you’ve just discovered the podcast and you wanna binge, that’s a great way to kinda start that process. So yes, that it’s the same as restorative.

[7:34] No, very different actually. And again, I’ve done a whole episode on that, so I won’t get into it in a ton of detail in here. But I will say that in yin, we are feeling sensation and we are being challenged. Whether that’s physically, mentally, emotionally, maybe all of the above, depending on the moment.

[7:50] Whereas in restorative, that’s a nap. If restorative is being taught in the true way that restorative was intended, it’s all about your nervous system and all about. Resting deeply. It is not a challenging practice in the same way that yin is. Again, whole episode on that, for those that are curious.

[8:09] Oh, another one, Janice, my friend Janice, who was interviewed on the pod, by the way, unearthing trauma, I believe was the episode name. It’s in the Google Doc, , that there are right ways to do the shape. One of the first ways I can tell if somebody’s got yin training or not is if they’re talking about alignment in yin.

[8:31] If they’re queuing alignment as they go into their poses, if they’re asking you to do certain things because they’re bringing these little carryover cues from their active training that they were studied in, and now they’re bringing them into the yin sphere. So if they’re telling you how to line up your foot or your ankle, or your knee, or your shin, or this or that, or the other thing.

[8:52] Is a dead giveaway that person has not studied Yin yoga in depth. there’s gonna be a bunch from Bernie. I’ll get to those in a moment. ’cause there’s a lot of people that have some like old, outdated kind of safety concerns and concepts about Yin. So we’ll get into those in a moment. Here’s another one from Molly. Molly Hogan. You must practice cold.

[9:09] Absolutely no warming up, no heated rooms. Not true. Now, you don’t need to do a warmup to practice yin. It’s not like other styles of yoga where you spend the first part of the class, warming up, don’t need them, but it’s fine if you’ve just come from a run and now you wanna do some yin. We talk about this in depth in the interview with Bernie Clark.

[9:32] Which is a fantastic episode, by the way, and you can listen to that again by clicking that link in the show notes that says all episodes at a glance. Oh, Nikki, , a good one, and that it’s dangerous to stretch the joints. Nope. Again, Bernie. , Bernie talks about that, , in his episode, and I’ll go into his document here in a moment and we’ll share some more from Bernie.

[9:56] Oh, Nikki again says that yin yoga is the best entry point into yoga for beginners. If she had a dollar for every student in the sales team sent to a yin class for the free trial saying it was an easy class. Whoa. Okay. Again, not necessarily. I did do it a whole episode on this too. Whether or not yin is for beginners, and we can’t say yes or no.

[10:18] It depends on the beginner, right? Like you might have a beginner who really wants to. Kinda dive deep into themselves. They want some quiet, they want some self care. They actually wanna learn meditation. That person could be a beginner or they could be the sparkly show, showboat , Vinyasa bunny, beginner to yin.

[10:35] So we can’t say yin is or isn’t for beginners. It really just depends what people are walking in the door with. But this misconception that it would be a easy or gentle class again, big misconception.

[10:58] Oh, that you just lay there. Here’s another one from Pamela. Big myth and misconception that you just lay there and she says Way more than that happens. Yes, because when you just lay there and get still and quiet, that’s when all the things that you don’t normally pay attention to become present.

[11:12] Oh, this one’s interesting. Daphne Luke, who’s also been on the podcast, my friends. We talked about sobriety in Yin. Again, if you want that episode, you got, you get it by now. All episodes at a glance link. , She once had someone say, I’m Christian and it’s offensive to me. Seems interesting. Now, I have heard a lot of people say that about yoga in general, but not specific to yin.

[11:39] Ah, here’s a good one. Thank you Jeremy Strickland, gold star. That yin yoga Asanas are an effective or an efficient way of working with the Meridian system. Maybe, maybe not. , I will at some point do a whole episode on this misunderstanding of meridians and how we’re actually working with Sinu channels and la la, la, la, la at some point in the future.

[12:01] I’m just looking for the right guest to chat with me about that. But yeah, that’s a big misconception that like, and there’s a very well known who I will not name, but some of you might know by me saying this, a yoga teacher out there in the yin world who says things like, doing your yin yoga practice is like getting acupuncture.

[12:20] It is not like getting acupuncture. Are you accessing the meridians of your body? And yin of course, are you accessing the meridian, of your body when you’re doing Qigong or haha, of course you can’t move around without accessing the meridians of your body. But this idea in yin that like, you know, yin is a replacement for acupuncture and that if we wanna, you know, work on our, our body the way an acupuncturist would, we just need to do a yin practice.

[12:46] No, that’s a big misconception. And it often goes, um, it often is said because either there is one particular well-known teacher who says that in her books and trainings, and to my knowledge, this teacher has zero Chinese medicine studies. So this is based on her reading books, I suppose, or you know, blogs and things.

[13:10] And then she trains teachers. And now those teachers are going around saying this pose. This pose or this sequence is for your kidney bladder meridian. But without ever saying, why would we wanna access our kidney bladder meridian? What is the point of that? Another good episode on this one is the one I did with Dr.

[13:27] Karina Smith. Y yoga is not Chinese medicine. Again, you can get to that with that link in the episode notes. And so that is a big misconception. That yin yoga, uh, and acupuncture. Same samesies? No, not, not at all. In fact, acupuncturists go into an in-depth amount of training. There’s Chinese mice and diagnosis.

[13:48] They would pick particular points for particular reasons and combine them with other points for particular reasons. So there’s no way to say that experience is the same as you doing your own yin practice. No. , Oh, Mikey Marbles, my buddy. That the yang names mean the same pose. That’s an interesting one.

[14:10] And that props aren’t encouraged. Or if you’re using them, you’re taking the easy route. Oh, huge pet peeve of mine. Whether or not you insert a prop in a practice depends on how accessible you want the practice to be, how much you wanna be able to relax into the pose, and the particular person and body and their skeleton doing the pose.

[14:30] I did a whole episode on props with my friend Addie d Hilter, so you can check that episode out. This is a bit of a bone of contention with her and I that people think as soon as you pull a bolster off the shelf, that now you’re not doing yin, you’re doing restorative, and that we don’t use props, that they’re just crutches.

[14:46] None of this is true, and when people have these opinions, it just shows to me that they actually haven’t watched anatomy for yoga with Paul Grille and they don’t understand skeletal variation. If you’re like right now thinking, oh shit, I think that’s me. There’s also a link for anatomy. Rio Yoga by Paul Grille in the episode notes cannot encourage you whether you’re already a yin teacher or not, to watch that, because it’s not yin specific, it’s specific to human bodies and the lies that we’ve been told, , about air quotes alignment.

[15:17] So definitely,, check that episode out. Oh, that it’s boring. That’s another big misconception that Yin yoga’s boring. Two episodes I would highlight for this one. Yin Yoga Is Not Entertainment is one that I’ve done a solo episode. And then one of the things that, Janice said in her unearthing trauma episode is that she doesn’t understand how people can say that it’s boring if you’re actually dropping into yourself.

[15:45] I’m paraphrasing her here. , How could you say that’s boring? Like, are you boring? Is what’s happening in your body boring? Is what’s happening in your mind? Boring. I don’t think so. But of course if you are one of those sparkly showboat, vinyasa bunny people who’s like all about the pump and playlist and a new sequence that looks more like dance routine than actual yoga, and this is what you’re used to, then yeah, maybe laying around on the floor might feel boring.

[16:10] But I would say then that’s the teacher’s job is to guide you into the subtle nuances of the things that we could pay attention to, and practicing introception in yen yoga that we wouldn’t be doing in a more active form of yoga. So that’s a good one too, that it’s boring, that you shouldn’t do it if it’s hard for you to calm your mind.

[16:34] This is such a good one. This one is by Tara Fairhead. Yes, Tara. I mean. I don’t like yin because it’s challenging on my mind. That’s the same misconception that people have with meditation. Oh, I’m not good at meditation because I have a busy mind. Everyone in the world has a busy mind. I’m gonna say that once again, a little louder.

[16:53] Everyone in the world has a busy mind. I did an episode on yin yoga in the Mind. You could check that out for more. But knowing that and normalizing this, so if you’re a teacher and you just don’t mention this to your students, no, in no wonder. They think they’re not good at yin or they suck at yin or they’re not gonna enjoy yin ’cause they think that they should be able to lay there still quiet and have a void in their mind with no thoughts.

[17:16] That’s not real life, , that you shouldn’t do it if it’s hard to calm your mind. Not maybe a myth, but she says they don’t like yin because firstly, they don’t get it since they haven’t spent enough time experiencing. And that’s exactly what she’s saying. This may be an actual symptom of needing more yin in their lives.

[17:32] People have a hard time slowing down and allowing stillness and softness in their bodies , and culturally we need more of it. Great List. Re already. Yes. And my friend Lita says, and who is also interviewed on the podcast, I feel like this is like a roundup of all of the other guests that I’ve had. It was not my intention, it’s just I, when I posted this on Facebook, I tagged a few people to get the conversation going.

[17:59] And she says there’s a big misunderstanding or lack of understanding that props can actually be used to intensify, not just add support. And I would agree, in fact, I do some poses in my end classes that you can’t even do without props. So definitely they can make the pose more accessible, easier, or more intense, or just possible.

[18:21] All of those things are true., Bridget says that it’s the best way to become more flexible. Hmm. And I asked her, which way do you think works better? That’s an interesting thought and question. I do not have an answer for that. Ooh, this is a good one, Laura Lenders, that the rebound, that little pause between poses is not necessary and that we’ll skip that and move immediately to the next pose.

[18:46] Oh, this really bugs me. I did a whole episode on that called Honoring the Rebound. You could listen to. , But yes, the, I would say that taking that little, um, pause to notice, to allow your body to assimilate what you’ve done and to notice that little space between no longer and not yet, and to watch the process of your body unfolding and the sensations over time.

[19:15] Super essential. And I would actually say if you’re not including a rebound time, and I know myself and a couple colleagues agree with this one that you’re not really practicing in. Okay.

[19:37] This is Amy Lee, uh, Santoyo. Again with the props, but this, I just like the way she says this, that the moment you use props, it becomes restorative. As in you shouldn’t use props in yin otherwise you’re not practicing Yin, it says, it makes me so mad. You can pry my props from my get cold dead hands. I agree.

[19:58] I agree. Oh. This one’s interesting. Linda Williams says, one thing that she’s heard is that you don’t get anything out of yen yoga. My question was wonders what they’re looking for specifically that they’re not getting.

[20:11] Uh, that it’s just stretching and that any pose held for a long time can be considered. Yen. Nope. , Oh, Jackie, one of my. Fellow admins in a yin yoga, network group posted Why should I take a yen yoga training when I can just read books in yin and teach the practice or go to other teachers’ yin classes?

[20:34] Uh, two, I’ve been teaching yin for yoga for years, and I don’t need to take a yin training in order to teach yen that you only create molecules of fluid in postures with compression, not tension. That’s interesting. I never heard that before. But yes. See lots of teachers out there think, ah, you don’t need a yin training to take yin.

[20:57] Yes, I would say you do. Oh, angel. One myth she often hears is that yin. Yoga is not real Yoga, yeah. People don’t really understand the history of the yoga they’ve been practicing then, if that’s the way they feel. So for example. , If you look at super old yoga books and the way they recommend practice like ha a yoga prpa, for example, all of the recommended hold times in that, in those shapes are minutes at a time.

[21:29] So, although Paul Greeley kind of codified yin yoga, put a name on it, started teaching it, you know, built out , his practice or his pose families, et cetera, et cetera, what he calls archetypes, started training teachers in it. This is not a brand new approach, neither is resting between poses. In the shivananda tradition, you lay down and you rest between poses and you notice, so like these are not.

[21:54] New things. That’s another common myth that I’ve heard is that, well, I mean in yoga’s only like 20 years old no maybe you could say, , that, Paul, Paul codifying in yoga, Paul Grille, um, and making it popular is 20 years old, although it’s much older at this point, but actually.

[22:12] That just shows again how little people either misunderstand yin and what it is or misunderstand other styles of yoga other than Vinyasa and Ashtanga. So interesting stuff.

[22:25] Yin yoga is only for flexible people. That’s a good one. , I guess if the teacher doesn’t use props, you might think that, you might think that about any style of yoga, though. If you mean, if you go onto Instagram and you hashtag yoga, you’re gonna see a whole bunch of super unaccessible poses done by bodies that are super bendy and you know, able bodied.

[22:48] Spin and all of that stuff. That doesn’t mean that that’s actually what yoga is. Yo yoga’s got a PR problem

[22:54] that would be a misconception for sure. Oh, that yin is too slow to be effective. Ooh, that’s an interesting one. It depends what you mean by effective. I mean, if you’re trying to like get your sweat on. , Get some really active yoga, get your heart rate going, et cetera, et cetera.

[23:14] Then yes, yin’s not gonna be effective for that. But it depends on what you’re looking for. ’cause what for what Yin is good at, it is highly effective. Oh, here’s another good one. I hear this one all the time, and teachers, please, if you’re saying this, stop, we need to do better than this. Yin yoga releases, stored emotions. Nope. It doesn’t actually. The emotions are there, period. The end, and what happens often in a yin class, or it could happen in a yoga Ninja class or anything else, like a meditation that’s quiet.

[23:42] That people are so busy being a human, doing not a human being, that they don’t process their emotions. They don’t address their emotions, they don’t deal with their emotions, they don’t think about their emotions. And so then when they come into a class and they’re still in quiet and the teacher isn’t gibbering on the whole time, there’s an episode on that too called Dear Y Yoga Teacher, please shut up.

[24:05] Um. When the teacher’s not babbling on incessantly the whole time and there is still in quiet time, then yes, things rise to the surface, but it’s not the yin yoga releasing those emotions. It’s the giving an opportunity to be still and quiet. If that person gave themselves permission to sit in their home and look out the window with tea without any noise, distraction, music, movies, et cetera, et cetera, going on, they would also.

[24:32] Likely have some emotions rise up to the surface. So now there is a lot of debate about whether or not emotions can be stored in your body. I’m certainly not saying they can’t be. I think they can be. I’m just saying that yin yoga specifically isn’t the culprit for, uh, releasing stored emotions, working any kind of body work might release stored emotions.

[24:56] You could go get a massage or some rolfing or chiropractor and you could release some emotions. And that it’s more likely that it comes up in yin, um, because there is the still quiet time where you’re not distracted and busying yourself.

[25:14] There’s a few, my friends, now I wanna go into some of the ones in Bernie’s document. He commented in the comments and he shared his, here it is, yin yoga concerns, addressing concerns about yin yoga, so I’m sure there’s some gold in here that we have not mentioned yet.

[25:32] Yin is dangerous because you shouldn’t stretch ligaments, tendons, joints, connected tissue, or fascia. You shouldn’t stretch joints. To protect joints, we must engage the muscles, not relax them. Passive stretching is not safe. By the way. There’s answers linked to all of these. I will put a link to this document because

[25:52] this is Bernie’s. So , I’ll link this document in the episode notes so you can go through, because this list is all hyperlinked to other posts that he’s done. , You shouldn’t stretch nerves. Holding stress for a long time is destabilizing. I think when he says stress, he means the stretch in your body like this, that kind of stretch, not like stress, as in mental, emotional stress holding for times make tissues weaker due to creep and therefore is more likely to be damaged.

[26:21] Yin yoga involves crunching of the spine, woo, in long held compressions. Yin yoga is bad for the muscles. Yin yoga will not trigger parasympathetic nervous system. Bullshit. Depends on how you teach it. And the person that’s being guided, ah, y yoga will trigger traumatic memories sometimes, sometimes not.

[26:44] You can have a traumatic memory in a Vinyasa class, just as likely. Um, I know someone who was hurt doing Y yoga. So this is just a list from Bernie. I’m just sharing them. I’m not gonna break each of these down because he does in his wonderful document, which I’ll share. Y yoga is not good for pregnant women, not good for hypermobile students.

[27:04] Oh, I did an episode on both of those. Uh, prenatal pre postnatal concerns and hypermobility in yin. Highly recommend you check those out. Hypermobility is a word that’s tossed around like confetti with very few teachers actually knowing what that means. That yin yoga is not good for beginners. See, it’s fine for beginners.

[27:23] You just have to know they’re a beginner and guide them in a certain way. Yin yoga is not good for people with cancer. Well, never heard that one. Yin yoga is not good for people with osteoporosis. Ah, it can be not so good, but just with certain poses and there’s ways to modify. I’m hoping, by the way, if you’re listening friends and you know of an expert in osteoporosis who also happens to have yin training, can you please, please.

[27:48] Tag me, find their website, send it to me. Something I found someone who I thought would be lovely, but some people are shy about being on podcasts and I really wanna do an episode on osteoporosis and yin. Uh, that yin is not good for people with fibromyalgia. Yin is not good for athletes. Wow. Actually, I think athletes are one of the best populations for yen.

[28:09] You just have to know when they’re training and work around their schedule. And we did a whole episode on that with Tiffany Crookshank called Yen Yoga for Athletes.

[28:20] Um, other miscellaneous concerns. There’s no scientific proof that yen yoga works. That y yoga comes from martial arts and it’s an advanced or extreme practice. Uh, no. , That poly zinc doesn’t like air quotes, popular yen yoga. Ooh, that would be one for me to read. Um, that yen yoga is not a complete practice.

[28:40] Yin is Chinese. Yoga is Indian. The two don’t mix. Hot yin is bad, or yin yoga is simply restorative yoga. So those are a bunch that, , that Bernie’s got,, articles written about on his website. So again, I will link this article, yin Yoga Concerns in the episode notes so that you can click it and then any of these that interest you, you can click on ’cause they’re all hyperlinked.

[29:07] And then you can read more So my friends. I just thought this would be a little bit of a fun episode to do, learning a bit more about some of the lies and myths that are out there about yin yoga and , and what the actual truth is of the matter. Again, I mentioned a crap load of episodes that you could check out.

[29:29] I’ve done episodes on a lot of these myths and misconceptions, and that’s the reason I did the episodes. , And then of course, I will also include Bernie’s. , Link to his document, which is, a link I include in all my teacher trainings, , so that you can check out some of the ones that I just mentioned here near the end that were from Bernie.

[29:46] You can read up more on those. , I hope that you found this helpful, entertaining. Maybe you had some ahas yourself or maybe you’re just gonna bookmark this episode so that you can share it with everybody who says one of these things out loud to you. And you can go, you know what? No, no, no.

[30:12] Listen to this. And if I missed some myths and misconceptions that you have heard about Yin yoga, if I get enough of them, I’ll do a part two. So feel free, to, get at me on Instagram, send me a DM to, , if you’re on Spotify, you can leave me a comment under this episode. Did I miss any misconceptions or is there any of these that you believed and now you’ve listened to this episode and you’re like.

[30:39] I better go investigate that a bit more. So whether you’re on Spotify or YouTube, you can leave me comments. If you’re listening on Apple, feel free to get at me on Instagram, , at In Yoga Podcast or at Nick Danu. Both of those are also linked in the show notes that you can give me a follow and, , I’d love to hear more about this.

[30:59] Let me know if I missed any, or if you had any aha moments during this episode. I hope you enjoyed this one. It’s a little bit more of a fun one ’cause we have a lot of heavy episodes on this podcast. Deep stuff. Um, once in a while it’s good to just have a little laugh and, , have some fun, keep it a bit light.

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